Fails

As Conservation Plan Fails, Ecuador OK’s Amazon Oil Drilling Plan

Environment

Ecuador has pulled the plug on a groundbreaking plan to have outside donors pay to protect an oil-rich swath of the Amazon. The plan failed to draw anywhere near the financial support the country had hoped.

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